bronze wheeled stand, designed to support a bowl or incense burner used in a ceremony or feast. decoration includes musicians and revellers, a hunting lion, a sphinx, a charioteer and other wildlife. Cyprus, 1250-1100 BC Bronze Age

bronze wheeled stand, designed to support a bowl or incense burner used in a ceremony or feast. decoration includes musicians and revellers, a hunting lion, a sphinx, a charioteer and other wildlife. Cyprus, 1250-1100 BC Bronze Age

bronze wheeled stand, designed to support a bowl or incense burner used in a ceremony or feast. decoration includes musicians and revellers, a hunting lion, a sphinx, a charioteer and other wildlife. Cyprus, 1250-1100 BC Bronze Age

bronze wheeled stand, designed to support a bowl or incense burner used in a ceremony or feast. decoration includes musicians and revellers, a hunting lion, a sphinx, a charioteer and other wildlife. Cyprus, 1250-1100 BC Bronze Age

Charcoal burners in Mark Ash Wood in the New Forest, England. On the left one of the charcoal burners is controlling the burning of the clamp . At centre right is their cabin made of branches covered in turf and heather. From The Illustrated London...

Charcoal burner at work in Kent, England. The charcoal burners would spend the summer in the woods cutting timber and producing charcoal, living with their families in caravans or, more usually, in rough cabins constructed of wood and turf. Woodcut...

Charcoal burner's caravan and cabin in a wood in the Hythe region of Kent, England. The charcoal burners would spend the summer in the woods cutting wood and producing charcoal, living with their families in caravans or, more usually, in rough...

Charcoal burners in the Lake District, north west England, known locally as colliers. From November to April the men cut and hauled wood. In April and May they peeled bark off the oak wood they had cut and this would be used for tanning leather. In...

Charcoal burners in the Lake District, north west England, known locally as colliers. Man stacking sticks of wood and building a pile or clamp which would be covered with turf and slowly burned to produce charcoal. From November to April the men cut...

Charcoal burners in Epping Forest, Essex, near London, England. The men and their families lived in the forest for the summer so that they could be on hand to attend the burning clamps whenever necessary. On the left a woman sits on a log outside the...

The Home of the Rick-Burner': Cartoon by John Leech from 'Punch', London, February 1844, showing the poverty-stricken living conditions of the agricultural labourer. Low wages and fear of unemployment due to introduction of farm...

Operating the pressure pump which forced oil up to the burner on the Eddystone lighthouse. This was in the fifth Eddystone lighthouse built on the Stone 13 miles South-east of Polperro, Cornwall, England, designed by James Douglas, engineer to Trinity...